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Not so much trades as having players walk - Luke Ball, Brendan Goddard and dare I say it, Zac Dawson come to mind.

Jesse Smith was a disaster. Already been mentioned Andrew Lovett.

Well there's enough hurt there :(
 

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Andrew McLeod... The one that got away.
Yeah cheers for that. :thumbsu:

Seriously though, wtf was Neesham thinking? Blunder of the century.

On the flip side it was bitter-sweet watching Marty Mattner play in the Grand Final last year. Neil Craig managed to take a good player and totally ruin him. Good thing Sydney we're able to revive his career and now he has a premiership medallion.
 

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#61
Stephen O'Reilly?

Pfffft....I thought Isaac Netwon's First Law of Motion was that Carlton had its strides pulled down in the Judd trade.
 

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Craig Devonport for an early round draft selection

StKilda used the pick to get Barry Hall
Devonport played only 1 game for Carlton
 
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1999 - Trading Clinton King and Pick 3 for Steve McKee and Pick 7. Cost us Pavlich, who may have been enough to get us over the line in 2002.

2007 - Trading Pick 14 for Cameron Wood. Could've potentially drafted Jack Grimes, Harry Taylor, Callan Ward or Scott Selwood, amongst others.


Who we then gave to Melbourne, who gave us Jesus-I mean Travis JJJohnstiner-and they got Jack Grimesy.
 
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#64
Traded Tom Harley to Geelong ._.

Yep traded him after 1 game in the first 2 years and kept Stephen Daniels who some how had managed to play 24 up until then and then managed another 34 games in the next two seasons. Both were tall skinny tall defenders, 193cms and both from Norwood. Daniels was a good ordinary footballer at best.
 

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Seemed like a good deal at the time, but Prismall for pick 39 doesn't look so good right now (as Geelong chose Motlop with that pick I believe).
 
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The trade which hurt Port Adelaide most didn't even involve us. It was at the end of 2005, when an ex-Port Adelaide maggie was struggling in Melbourne and screaming to come home to Port- his name was Scott Thompson. We ignored him and he turned into a star of the comp at Adelaide, while we continued to pick up recycled spuds like Aaron Shattock and Peter Walsh.
Not quiet right. Thompson said he wanted to come home in August and unlike the crows we had to worry about September. It was 2004 not 2005.

Josh Carr wanted to go home and play with his brother at Freo, and a week after winning the flag we wasted a week trying to deal with Freo because we didn't want him to go. On the last day we got picks 11, 27 and 43 for Carr. By the Tuesday the crows had picked up Scott Thompson with a trade for pick 12 to Melbourne. We drafted Adam Thompson with pick 11, traded pick 27 for Aaron Shattock from Brisbane and got Walsh with pick 43 in a trade with Melbourne. Walsh had a good 2005, finished in the top 10 in the B&F. By the end of 2006 both Shattock and Walsh were cut and Adam Thompson was gone at the end of 2008 after a whopping 28 games.

Adelaide did well. they used pick 12 they got for Stenglein from WCE, to trade for Thompson. They were pissed off losing a 106 gamer ( who only played 102 games and 5 years for WCE but did help them beat the crows in the 2005 and 2006 prelim finals) at the time, but got a 200 game player for the club and dual club champion.
 

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Andrew McLeod... The one that got away.
That old chestnut again?? .. wasn't a genuine trade.

Back in the day a newly drafted player wasn't given an automatic standard contract, the contract had to be negotiated between player and club. If contract couldn't be agreed the player was free to nominate himself in the pre-season draft (when it was actually held in the pre-season) with whatever terms and conditions he stipulated.

When comparing trades, a distinction must be made between voluntary trades and "get what you can or lose him for nothing in the pre-season draft" type of deals. McLeod falls into the latter category. His condition was trade me to an Adelaide-based team (of which there was only one at the time), or lose me in the PSD for nothing, wherein I will nominate living in Adelaide as my precondition. Not really a choice as such.

The rules have changed since then for newly drafted players of course. Now they have no choice but to go to the club that drafted them.
 

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Didn't really hurt the hawks (we won 5 flags after this), but, ablett to Geelong for a (rumoured) yrs supply of oranges...
To win the next year's flag, all you need to do is kick out a Gary Ablett - Hawks did it, Cats did it...a forward thinking club should be bribing Gaz big bucks to get the family started now, so they can draft Gary Ablett III and then dump him...
 

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Any Swans fan posting anything from the last ten years needs to look back to the bad old days when we were nothing more than a football nursery for the other clubs.

I'd nominate Terry and Neale Daniher for Neville Fields.
Then a few years later Anthony left to play with his brothers
Now Anthony's son plays for Essendon.
 
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I think the one trade that sticks out for me that ultimately ripped the heart and soul from the club and never to recover was when tigers traded Jeff Hogg who at the time was struggling from back and hamstring problems for paul Broderick, mickey gale and Matty Dundas. I think Jamie Elliot came across seep rarely as well!
Turned a mediocre on field club to the easybeats of the competition
 

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#73
Brad Ottens is one ill always regret losing. At face value getting picks 12 and 16 for him seemed good, but we wasted them on duds.
 

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1999 - Trading Clinton King and Pick 3 for Steve McKee and Pick 7. Cost us Pavlich, who may have been enough to get us over the line in 2002.

2007 - Trading Pick 14 for Cameron Wood. Could've potentially drafted Jack Grimes, Harry Taylor, Callan Ward or Scott Selwood, amongst others.
I get what you are saying about what could have been but I seriously doubt HT was on anyone else's draft radar in round 1. HT was a Wells special and mature age before the mature age thing got popular.. and we got all kinds of looks like WTF when he was taken...

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Brad Ottens is one ill always regret losing. At face value getting picks 12 and 16 for him seemed good, but we wasted them on duds.
Otto was a great get but took some time to get going at Geelong....but did plenty fine in the end...
Of course, getting the picks is the first step... not taking duds is a whole different matter...

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